Brummett Echohawk Native American Art Original Stampeding Buffalo Autograph

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Brummett Echohawk Native American Art Original Stampeding Buffalo Autograph
Description
You are looking at an original drawing done by Brummett Echohawk.
This original drawing depicts a buffalo stampede
knocking down Santa Claus.
He sent this Christmas card to my parents/family.
The original was drawn with red and black ball point pens,
that he and his wife Mary signed the card with.
Christmas card folded measures 6-1/4" x 4-1/2".
The card was produced by Echohawk Cards of Tulsa, Oklahoma.
I have known Brummett Echohawk since I was 8 years old.
He was a distinguished American Indian artist.
He died in Bartlesville, OK at the age of 83 in 2006.
Echohawk, a Pawnee Indian, was born March 3, 1922 in Pawnee, OK.
He served with Oklahoma's 45th Infantry Thunderbird Division.
Company B, 179th Infantry, during World War II.
He saw action in North Africa, Sicily and Italy and was cited for bravery in combat.
He received three Bronze Stars and three Purple Hearts.
Art depicting combat that Echohawk produced during the war
was published in the Army's Yank magazine and was syndicated in 88 newspapers.
Following the war, Echohawk studied at the Detroit School
of Art and Crafts and at the Art Institute of Chicago.
He also attended the University of Chicago
and studied journalism at the University of Tulsa.
Echohawk was a former staff artist for the Chicago Daily Times and Chicago Sun-Times.
He was widely known for his paintings of American Indians and the American West.
His landscape oil paintings were rendered in an impressionistic style with a pallette knife -- and a Bowie knife.
Echohawk's paintings have hung in art museums around the world,
including Tulsa's Gilcrease and Philbrook museums,
and he was a former board member of the Gilcrease Museum.
One of his most significant achievements was assisting Thomas Hart Benton
with the mural "Independence and the Opening of the West" for the Truman Memorial Library in Independence, Mo.
Echohawk also was an actor, having performed in plays, television producations and motions pictures.
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